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Handwriting promotes learning more than typing, scientists claim
A Norwegian team of scientists has investigated the influence of handwriting and typing on brain activity and memory abilities.
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Initial guidance: Tips
Each school provides initial guidance for starting teachers to provide them with maximum support in their first steps in education or a first job in a school. How do you deal with questions or assignments that you receive during your initial …
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Start-Wijs: How do you keep (your) starting teachers on board?
The teacher shortage and the outflow of starting teachers poses a major challenge. Various short and long(er) term actions are taken or planned. To what extent do these really meet the needs of novice teachers? And what are the reasons why …
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Karen Van de Cruys on feedback
As a Russian teacher, Karen Van de Cruys noticed that feedback gave a huge boost to the learning process of her students, after which she decided to delve into this aspect of teaching. She then became a teacher of Dutch and English and eventually …
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DynamoPROJECT: Receive up to 2000 euros for your artistic project
With dynamoPROJECT you receive up to 2000 euros for a creative school trajectory. You and your students work together with at least one external artistic partner in a multi-day trajectory.
There are many possibilities:
- For example, hire a director to …
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SURF: Digital file testing knowledge file
Digital testing not only saves paper and exam time during examinations, but also offers opportunities to offer the education more personally and tailor-made. Rapid analysis of the outcomes of (interim) tests makes it possible for students to give …
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Making learning outcomes visible through the use of dashboards
At the end of 2019, Toll-net and Gito Overijse developed a plan for a dashboard tool. This tool is a kind of graphical report (progress report) that shows the main performance indicators relevant to a particular course/training in one …
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The coverage of distributed practice and retrieval practice in Flemish and Dutch teacher education t
This scientific article describes:
- two effective learning strategies: 'distributed practice' (distributed learning) and 'retrieval practice' (active trying to remember);
- how to use them in the classroom;
- why it is important to know and use these …
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The negative of friendship: Investigation report
Friendship is positive, right? What children and young people tell Awel sounds different. The negative of friendship provides tools for those who want to assist young people in friendship and conflict.
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Inventorying and analyzing research and policy advice Dutch as a second language: Research
Commissioned by the Taalunie, the CTO and ITTA carried out a joint study to find the trends and gaps in research and policy texts on NT2 language acquisition education from the past 15 years.
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The joys and challenges of interdisciplinary working: A social science and computer science story
This is a description of the European project ENLIVEN (Encouraging Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe), which spans two scientific disciplines: social science and computer science. It is a Horizon 2020-funded three year …
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Wonderfully Bright in Healthcare
Clear communication is extremely important when it comes to health. Four out of ten Flemish people have limited health care and find it difficult to understand everything about their illness, their medicines or their care. Elderly or non-native …
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